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alal 2011-06-21 -- AMMAN — There seem to be a thousand and one interpretations of the changes sweeping across the countries of the Middle East and North Africa. One response that is often heard is a note of cautious optimism, captured in US President Barack Obama recent speech at the State Department when
He had long been under pressure to abandon his principles. (No doubt, by this he meant his Arab nationalist convictions, his alliance with Iran and Hizbullah, his opposition to Israel and the United States.) Syria needed to strengthen its immunity against such conspiracies, he insisted. In this defiant
genuinely to have believed that the Arab nationalist ideology he inherited, his opposition to Israel and his support for resistance movements such as Hizbullah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, gave him immunity from popular discontent. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal on 31 January, he claimed that
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024963 →nfluence, destroy the PLO and bring Lebanon into its orbit, Syria found local allies among the Shia resistance movements of South Lebanon -- of which Hizbullah became the most prominent. Waging a guerrilla war, and benefiting from logistical support and weapons from Iran and Syria, Hizbullah managed to force
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024967 →hief of staff in the White House, to be the first ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues. Even amid the Sturm und Drang of the Middle East and North Africa, she’s liable to leave her imprint in the same areas that brought her into public life in the first place—helping women and children and strengthenin
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024995 →n Talal 2011-06-21 -- AMMAN - There seem to be a thousand and one interpretations of the changes sweeping across the countries of the Middle East and North Africa. One response that is often heard is a note of cautious optimism, captured in US President Barack Obama recent speech at the State Department when he
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030160 →. He had long been under pressure to abandon his principles. (No doubt, by this he meant his Arab nationalist convictions, his alliance with Iran and Hizbullah, his opposition to Israel and the United States.) Syria needed to strengthen its immunity against such conspiracies, he insisted. In this defiant spe
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030168 →Entities connected to both North Africa and Hezbollah

Barack Obama
PERSON
Lebanon
LOCATION
United States
LOCATION
Jeffrey Epstein
PERSON
Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
George W. Bush
PERSON
Marc Rich
PERSON
Bill Clinton
PERSON
Tehran
LOCATION
Tunisia
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Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Yemen
LOCATION
Damascus
LOCATION
Cairo
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Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
Bahrain
LOCATION
Middle East
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Fatah
ORGANIZATION
Morocco
LOCATION
Terje Rod-Larsen
PERSON